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chapter 18 industry and urban growth

Terms in this set (27)

patent
a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention
Thomas Edison
an American inventor and business man who created many devices such as the light bulb and the phonograph
Alexander Bell
a Scottish-born scientist and inventor who patented the first practical telephone
Henry Ford
an American industrialist who helped make the assembly line technique of mass production, also created the Ford car company
assembly line
a manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt
Wilbur and Orville Wright
designed, built, and flew the first controlled and powered airplane.
entrepreneur
someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit
corporation
businesses owned by many investors
monopoly
a company that controls most or all business in a particular industry
Andrew Carnegie
an Scottish-American who led a huge expansion of the American steel industry
John D. Rockefeller
an American businessman who co-founded the Standard Oil Company
trust
a group of corporations run by a single board of directors
free enterprise
The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely
Samuel Gompers
first and longest serving president of the Federation of Labor
collective bargaining
Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
urbanization
The rapid growth of city populations
tenement
Buildings divided into many tiny apartments
Jane Addams
a pioneer American who led women's suffrage and world peace, also created the first Hull House
settlement house
A center offering help to the urban poor
steerage
Large compartments that usually held cattle in the bottom of a ship
assimilation
The process of becoming part of another culture, taking on a countries traditions while giving up some of your own
anarchist
A person who opposes all forms of government
compulsory education
The requirement that children attend school up to a certain age
realist
Writers who try to show life as it is
Mark Twain
an American author and humorist who wrote books such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Joseph Pulitzer
a Hungarian-born American who introduced the idea of "new journalism" to newspapers
yellow journalism
Describing the sensational reporting style
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